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prior to

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This limits a Control or Mandate's secondary verb to be put into play before the event takes place.

MWEFFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012

Senses

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match

No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 9 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

Entity Type

Requirement0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
prior toesprior tos
possessive
prior to's
pluralpossessive
prior toes'prior tos'